North Carolina Wildflowers

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Poaceae > Zizania
	Southern Wild-rice, Annual Wild Rice (Zizania aquatica var. aquatica) Brunswick Co., NC 13 Aug 2006 Uncommon in NC, Northern Wild-rice is found in freshwater and usually tidal marshes like those around the Cape Fear River.
	Southern Wild-rice, Annual Wild Rice (Zizania aquatica var. aquatica) Brunswick Co., NC 13 Aug 2006 This species was an important food source for Native Americans.

Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Common names from personal experience and supplemented by the following resources USDA plants website, Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, and NatureServe.